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may be thanks to consideration of new data released last year by the Obama administration. For the first time, the publication’s 2016 rankings included incomes of students 10 years after enrolling at a given college, how likely they are to be paying down principal on loans and the percentage of first-generation students at each college. Earlier this summer PLU was named one of the top colleges in the country for awarding creative arts scholarships by LendEDU, the PLU School of Nursing was ranked
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held enterprises, and supply chain management. The marketing analytics program prepares students for careers in data analysis, business marketing, social media, and brand management. The kinesiology program combines academic rigor with an emphasis on real-world training and practice and students may specialize in sports psychology and exercise science. To be eligible for streamlined graduate admission, PLU and Puget Sound alumni will have a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or above and complete an online
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favorite parts was the data analysis. Her love of math has also been a way to serve the wider PLU community. “While completing these degrees, she also had time to be an SI (supplemental instruction) leader for precalculus in 2020 [and] to grade for multiple instructors,” said chemistry professor Dr. Andrea Munro. “She is an incredible student.” Jackie’s sense of initiative has also been developed by club activities outside the classroom. As an Outdoor Rec trip leader and Ultimate Frisbee coach for
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Mathematics, Actuarial Science, Statistics, and Data Science. Read Previous Find out how Bailey Hamilton ’22 balances athletic involvement with academic excellence Read Next Yaquelin Ramirez’s ’22 passion for helping others leads to a future in healthcare LATEST POSTS College Prep 101 Webinar: The College Essay September 23, 2024 College Prep 101 Webinar: College Applications September 23, 2024 College Prep 101 Webinar: The College Search Process September 23, 2024 PLU Welcomes the Class of 2028
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natural world, and this grants, including the grants to Pacific Lutheran University, are an important part of that work,” said Dana Miller, senior program director for the Murdock Trust. The grants to PLU will fund two years of student-faculty research looking into the ecology of the Pacific Northwest, as well as species divergence in several Mississippi River tributaries. Each professor will work with four students (two each summer) over the next two years to both collect and analyze data. For
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published as a result of decreasing military budget projections. Cuts to JBLM would represent as much as 8 percent of the total cuts recommended by SPEA, which calls for the Army to reduce its “active duty end-strength” from 562,000 in 2012 (when PEA research began) down to 420,000 or fewer. Wednesday’s session will represent one of 30 throughout the country that are part of the Army’s analyses and data collection regarding where to enact the pending cuts. “The Army published a SPEA and determined that
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introduce Professor Hardyway, Professor Mike Halvorson had a conversation with him over Summer break. This post contains a few excerpts, including essential data about his dog, Driscoll, and cat, Ivy. You can reach Professor Hardyway at fdhardyway@plu.edu. Research and Teaching Interests Prof. Halvorson: Where did you attend college? Can you share a few research interests with us? Prof. Hardyway: I attended undergraduate school in Wichita Kansas, and got my master’s degree in Wichita, Kansas both at
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2006 “Can the Can”Office of Residential Life and Outdoor Rec to initiate the formation of a bike co-op on campus. campaign and raise awareness about PLU’s surplus sales. Meanwhile, Pfaff will work with the Since the inception of “Can the Can” in October 2006, nearly half of PLU’s faculty and staff have opted to participate, giving up their personal trash cans in favor of recycling more. However, no data has been collected about the effectiveness of the campaign. Buchholz will survey faculty and
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samples need to spin inside the magnet at nearly the speed of sound to get the best data. The spectrometer contains a series of chambers, with the outside chamber forming a vacuum jacket. The outer chamber is then filled with liquid nitrogen, which is at a temperature of minus 321 degrees Fahrenheit. Inside the chamber, a superconducting magnet sits in a broth of liquid helium, which is even colder, at minus 452 degrees Fahrenheit, or just a few degrees above the lowest known temperature in the
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, and deconstruct them and analyze them on a computer to quantify differences in the songs of the different call types. This is technical, dry work. But Grossberg is thrilled at the opportunity. “I just love being outdoors, and this gives you an appreciation for the overall research we’re doing and how all the pieces connect, how they all fit together,” he said. Scientific research, he’s learned, is 95 percent failure and 5 percent success. So there is a lot of slogging through data that may not
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